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After reading this post, this evening Ribcage and I watched "Death Dive to Saturn" on PBS Nova. Your post was a preview that helped me understand some of the info. Very fascinating.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 13, 2017 at 8:33 PM
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Nautikos
Sad to see Cassini's demise. My question is this: if we didn't want to chance polluting Titan, for example, with Earthly microbes, why was it okay to drop off the Huygens probe there? Was it microbe-free? Wonder what's in the lakes and seas on Titan. Which brings me to another question. Is Earth then older than Titan? All so interesting... Thank you. 
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Sea_Gypsy
on September 13, 2017 at 2:59 PM
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This post of yours made a good trivia game with Ribcage. He loves trivia and is good at it. He knew an awful lot of the things I asked him, but he did mess up with Enceladas. He said it was one of his favorite Mexican foods.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 13, 2017 at 2:43 PM
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years and years of study still ahead of all those marvelous data and pictures sent back from this brave little explorer
posted by
Kabu
on September 13, 2017 at 11:07 AM
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Well I suppose with such a a large number of sun's, some planets have evolved and passed into history although that is too weak a word for that happening.As we have emotions one cannot help feeling sorry for the little explorer, as I expect it's team who have monitored it will mourn that particular loss.
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C_C_T
on September 13, 2017 at 8:47 AM
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Glad we were able to get the info from Cassini, but it seems
sad that it will become nothing but space dust... Of course that's how it all ends up, I suppose.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 13, 2017 at 8:39 AM
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Each one of those discoveries is huge on its own, let alone making four major ones...Cassini did a great job during its time on its way to Saturn.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 13, 2017 at 8:11 AM
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